![Album Mosaique Decorative [UNIQUE SAMPLE ALBUM WITH AT LEAST 65 ORIGINAL PAINTED GOUACHE DESIGNS FOR MOSAICS]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/863/889/1716889863.0.l.jpg)
Album Mosaique Decorative [UNIQUE SAMPLE ALBUM WITH AT LEAST 65 ORIGINAL PAINTED GOUACHE DESIGNS FOR MOSAICS]
by Zanussi, A. [Antonio]; [Mazzioli & Del-Turco]; [Mazzioli et Chauviret]
[Nice, France]: NP, 1910. Hardcover. vg- to vg. Oblong quarto (8 1/2" x 11"). 43 individual single-sided leaves (hand-numbered). Period green pebbled cloth with blind-stamped ruling and gilt lettering on the front cover. Housed in a custom green leather over marbled paper clamshell box. Marbled endpapers. This unique hand-assembled portfolio is comprised of at least 65 individual designs for polychromatic floor, wall panel and ceiling mosaics, created by Antonio Zanussi (1849-1911). The content may have existed in... Read More
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Lernt Helfen: Ein Raumbildwerk der ersten Hilfe für Laienhelfer (Learn to Help: A Stereo View of First Aid for the Layman)
by Zapp, Helmut
Oberaudorf am Inn: Raumbild - Verlag Otto Schönstein, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. g. 4to. 106 pp. Olive cloth binding with white lettering on cover and spine. Beveled edges. 60 stereographs and a stereoscope resting in lowered pockets inside front board. Early 1950's Raumbild album on basic first aid in cases of drowning, shock, bleeding, poisoning, heart attack, hypothermia, unconsciousness, spine, head- and neck injuries, etc. Also covers basic anatomy and CPR. Text section illustrated with 10 full page... Read More
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Jews in the Province of Posen: Studies in the Communal Records of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries [INSCRIBED]
by Zarchin, Michael M.
Philadelphia: The Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. g+ to vg. Inscribed "With best wishes to Michael Preston from Michael M. Zarchin" on front free endpaper. Quarto. VII, 115pp. Original brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Publisher's device on title page. The basis of the present study was a collection of manuscripts in the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, consisting of 42 manuscripts dealing with the socio-economic internal political... Read More
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The Arabic Translation and Commentary of Yefet ben ʿEli the Karaite on the Abraham Narratives (Genesis 11:10–25:18). Edition and Introduction
by Zawanowska, Marzena and Japheth ben Ali,; ha-Levi,; active 10th century
Leiden: Brill, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. [English text] xviii, 283pp. Index and 26 page bibliography. [Hebrew text] xiii, (1), 279pp. Green buckram lettered in white with red band near top of spine. A fine, as new copy. This is a serious academic work which will find its place in research collections supporting biblical and Judaica scholarship." Randall C. Belinfante, American Sephardi Federation This volume contains a critical edition of the Arabic translation and... Read More
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Landhäuser
by Zechlin, Hans Josef
Tübingen: Ernst Wasmuth, 1951. Neue Ausgabe. Hardcover. fair. Quarto. 175, [1]pp. Original pictorial wrappers over tan cloth with brown-stamped lettering on spine and front cover. Printer's device on title page. A survey of contemporary suburban and country houses in Europe and America. Featuring work by Breuer, Esherik, Gropius, George Howe, Louis Kahn, Luckhardt Bros., Neutra, Bruno Taut, and others. Some age wear on wrappers with creasing, chipping and closed tears along edges. Previous owner's ex-libris on inside of... Read More
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Wassily Kandinsky: Unter autorisierter Benutzung der russischen Selbstbiographie. Mit einem Farbendruck, acht Netzätzungen und vier Strichätzungen. (Künstler der Gegenart. Herausgegeben von Dr. Paul Ferdinand Schmidt. Erster Band)
by Zehder, Hugo
Dresden: Rudolf Kammerer Verlag, 1920. Hardcover. vg. 4to. 53pp., followed by 10 full-page plates. Illustrated paper covered boards. Brown endpapers. Small illustration to page following free front endpaper. Tipped-in color frontispiece following title page. Biography of acclaimed Russian-Jewish artist, Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944). Based partly on his (Russian-language) autobiography. Illustrated with reproduction of one color painting (frontispiece), one full-page b/w drawing between text pages (on p.6, unnumbered) and 10 full-page b/w reproductions of etchings at end. Age wear... Read More
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The Rolling Stone Book Of Comedy
by Zehme, Bill
Boston: Bulfinch Press, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. vg. 4to. 136pp. Blue cloth in original dust jacket. Minor discoloration to dj. Profusely illustrated with full-page color plates of the most famous comedians. Introduction by Billy Crystal, photos by Bonnie Schiffman. In fine condition.
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The Resurgence of Religion : A Comparative Study of Selected Themes in Christian and Islamic Fundamentalist Discourses
by Zeidan, David
Leiden: Brill, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. near fine. Octavo. vii, (5), 390, (4)pp. Index and 50 page bibliography. Pictorial boards with lilac/gray spine lettered in white. A fine but ex-library copy (with minimal markings; i.e. rubber stamps on title page & bottom of text block). This book is a comparative study of basic themes in Christian and Islamic fundamentalist discourses, analyzing and comparing texts from a wide variety of fundamentalist leaders and movements, looking for "family... Read More
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Musterbuch der Korbwaren-Industrie Carl Zeidler
by Zeidler, Carl
Sonnefeld: Self published, 1937. Softcover. Oblong 4to. Unpaginated, 36 plates and 28 type written stapled pages (in German) with prices & information of each item that is pictured in the catalog. Scarce Carl Zeidler company catalogue illustrated with over 1,200 b/w photographic reproductions on 36 plates of baskets and wicker furniture & accessories. Includes wicker doll carriages, toys, chairs, and many basketry items. Sticker of Wilhelm Rübsamen, Dresden..." on front wrapper & first leaf of typewritten pages. Includes 2... Read More
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![Two-page Facsimile "Wunderthema im Orchester" [Inscribed and Signed by Eric Zeisl]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/850/175/835175850.0.l.jpg)
Two-page Facsimile "Wunderthema im Orchester" [Inscribed and Signed by Eric Zeisl]
by Zeisl, Eric
Softcover. vg to near fine. Folio. Two pages (unopened) with musical score in facsimile of Eric Zeisl's "Wunderthema im Orchester", bound in textured faux-leatherette wrappers. Inscribed by Zeisl in blue ink on inside of front cover: "To Mr. & Mrs. Frederic a. Sabel zur Erinnerung herzlichst gewidmet Eric Zeisl, Hollywood / Aug. (?) 1957." Minor rubbing to edges of wrappers. Interior in very good to near fine condition. Eric Zeisl was a 20th century Austrian composer. He was... Read More
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The History of the Second Jewish Commonwealth: Prolegomena
by Zeitlin, Solomon
Philadelphia: The Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. g. Quarto. XII, 78pp. Original brown cloth with gold lettering on spine. Publisher's logo on title page. Remarkable work shedding a new light on the history of the Second Jewish Commonwealth. The first Jewish commonwealth was ended by the Babylonian conquest of 586 B.C.E. The second Jewish commonwealth, although besieged by shortlived conquests, endured until it became a Roman province, "Palestina," in 44 B.C.E. and... Read More
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The History of the Second Jewish Commonwealth
by Zeitlin, Solomon
Philadelphia: The Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. vg. 8vo. xii,78pp. Brown cloth with gold lettering on spine. Gold faded. Head and tail of spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Some staining and scuffing to boards. "In this book I have tried to describe the political and economic forces which operated to divide the Jewish people into two factions during the wars between Syria and Egypt, the one favoring the Ptolemies and... Read More
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The Dead Sea Scrolls and Modern Scholarship [The Jewish Quaterly Review: Monograph Series, Number III]
by Zeitlin, Solomon
Philadelphia: The Dropsie College for Hebrew, 1956. First edition. Softcover. g. Quarto. XVI, [2], 154pp (Text), [10]pp (Plates). Original printed wrappers with publisher's logo on front cover and title page. Remarkable work in which the author argues strenuously - on philological grounds - that the antiquity of the Dead Sea Scrolls should be rejected. Subsequent carbon-14 tests on their linen wrappers firmly dated the finds to the late Second Temple Period and laid to rest arguments concerning the... Read More
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Religious and Secular Leadership Part I.
by Zeitlin, Solomon
Philadelphia: Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, 1943. Hardcover. g. 8vo. xvi, 117pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering on spine. A collection of mostly previously published articles dealing with religious authority among Jews during the Middle Ages by the noted Jewish historian Solomon Zeitlin. Includes discussions of Rashi, Maimonides and Saadiah Gaon as well as the conflict between Babylonian and Palestinian Jewish leaders. Zeitlin never published his proposed second volume, which was to deal with modernity.... Read More
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Wild Flowers of the Holy Land
by Zeller, Hannah; H. B. Tristram (Preface); Edward Atkinson (Introduction)
London: James Nisbet and Co, 1876. Second edition. Hardcover. fair. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original gold and black-stamped cloth. All edges gilt. Remarkable work compiling fifty-four stunning color plates of wild flowers of the Holy Land, drawn and painted after nature. Each illustration is captioned in English, French, German and Latin. All plates with tissue-guard. Spine rebacked. Heavy rubbing with moderate abrasion along edges. Corners bumped and rubbed (not affecting pages). Boards discolored and soiled. Back cover damp stained. Minor... Read More
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Moskauer Theater Habima. Gründer und Direktor Nahum Zemach. Tournee Europa Amerika (Moscow Theater Habima. Founder and Director Nahum Zemach)
by Zemach, Nahum; Samuel Margolin (Text)
Moscow: Moskau Theater Habima, 1926. First edition. Softcover. Good condition. Quarto. 68pp. Original tan wraps with brown lettering on cover. Title page with Habima symbol on title page. Founder and director Nahum Zemach. Tournee Europe-America. Director Michel Kachouk. Frontispiece photograph of Nahum Zemach. With listing of repertoire, authors, directors, set designers, composers and artists. Director of set design I. Rubinstein, and musical director G. Kompanetz. Contains thumbnail photographs of the Habima staff, including K. Stanislawski, E. Wachtangow,... Read More
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El-Ahwat : A Fortified Site from the Early Iron Age Near Nahal 'Iron, Israel : Excavations 1993-2000
by Zertal, Adam (editor), and 14 contributors
Leiden: Brill, 2012. First edition thus. Hardcover. Fine. xix, (1), 485, (1)pp. With a 32 page bibliography. Red buckram lettered in yellow. Illustrated with approx. 200 photos, drawings, archaeological ground plans and charts. A fine, as new copy. This report presents the findings of a unique archaeological site in central Israel. The site is a fortified city, possibly from the Sea-Peoples Shardana, that contains intriguing architecture and many Egyptian finds. The Egyptian finds specifically indicate that... Read More
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Cahiers d'Art, 6e Année 1931, No. 5-6: L'Oeuvre de Henri Matisse
by Zervos, Christian, Paul Fierens, Pierre Guéguen, Dr. Curt Glaser, Will Grohmann; Georges Salles, Roger Fry, Henry McBride, Karel Asplund, G. Scheiwiller, Guillaume Apollinaire (Text by)
Paris: Cahiers d'Art, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. f to vg. Folio (12 3/4 x 10"). [18]pp (Advertisement), 9-96pp (Text and plates). Contemporary blue morocco, with gold lettering and ruling to spine and front cover. Decorative endpapers. Title from the original front cover pasted onto fly leaf. Lavishly illustrated throughout with 97 in-text and full-page monochromes reproducing some of Henri Matisse's artwork, this double-issue of Christian Zervos' "Cahiers d'Art" is a splendid monograph on a major figure in... Read More
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Rosa Luxemburg Karl Liebknecht Franz Mehring. Den Führern des Spartakusbundes und Gründern der Kommunistischen Partei Deutschlands
by Zetkin, Clara
Moscow, Leningrad: Verlagsgenossenschaft Ausländischer Arbeiter in der UDSSR, 1934. First edition. Softcover. g to vg. Octavo. 172(1)pp. original tan and brown wraps with brown and reverse tan lettering on cover, brown on spine. Frontispiece. Foreword by Karl Schmückle and various contributions by Clara Zetkin on Luxemburg, Liebknecht, Franz Mehring, Luxemburg's sentencing, a commemoration of Luxemburg, on the revolutionary fights and fighters 1919, fighters and leaders (1920), Luxemburg's Junius Brochure, Luxemburg's life's work, a foreword to a Liebknecht biography,... Read More
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Zopf und Empire in Mittel- und Norddeutschland. 2 Vol.-set (Complete)
by Zetzsche, Carl
Leipzig: Baumgärtner's Buchhandlung, 1909. First edition. Hardcover. g+ to near fine. Folio. Part 1: 16pp., 90 plates, Part 2: 16pp., 90 plates. Two portfolios in original three quarter green cloth over green paper-covered board with gilt lettering on cover. Decorative paper-covered inside covers and flaps. Introduction by the author and list of halftone plates and in-text photographs with descriptive text in both volumes. Impressive collection of "Zopfbauten" presented in 180 skillful halftone plates based on the 1906 edition... Read More
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Stadtgestaltung
by Zeuchner, Gerd
Berlin: VEB Verlag für Bauwesen, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 224pp. Original illustrated wrappers over tan paper covered boards. Captivating monograph on urban design dealing with the arrangement, appearance and functionality of former East German cities such as Berlin, Dresden, Erfurt, Leipzig, Potsdam, Rostock, but also other European cities such as Paris, Versailles, Rome, London, etc... This work is profusely illustrated with numerous b/w full-page and in-text photographic reproductions of buildings and maps. Minor age-toning and creasing along edges... Read More
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Sefer Gaon Zwi: Al Massekhet Baba Metziya
by Zevi, Hirsch ben Joshua
Warsaw: M. A. Glikman, 1882. Later printing. Softcover. g to g+. Large Quarto. 81pp. Rebound in decorative wrappers. Decorative ruling on title page. Decorative endpiece. Commentary on the Talmud, tractate Baba Metziya chapters 1-10, with commentary of Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki), RambaM (Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon), the RiF (Rabbi Isaac al-Fasi), Tosefta and Tosafot. Text in Hebrew. Wrappers with light wear along edges and spine, creasing at lower corner. Light sporadic foxing, and a few stains at first... Read More
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Tatlin
by Zhadova, Larissa Alekseevna
New York: Rizzoli, 1988. First American edition. Hardcover. vg. 4to. 533pp. Blind-stamped black cloth with red lettering on spine in original photographic dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers. Detailed publication on the life and work of Russian avant-garde artist, Vladimir Tatlin. Includes Tatlin's manifestos, letters and writings, as well as many contemporary articles by various scholars. Illustrated with color duo tone and b/w reproductions of the artists work. Includes b/w reproductions of photographs. Minor scratches on front cover, very slight... Read More
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揚州八怪書畫集 The Selected Painting and Calligraphy of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangchow (歷代名畫家作品選集 Selected Works of Famous Painters in Chinese History) (8 vols.)
by 張萬里 Zhang Wanli; 胡仁牧 Hu Renmu (eds.)
香港 (Hong Kong): 開發股份有限公司 (Cafa Company Limited), 1970. First edition. Softcover. vg+ to near fine. Elephant folios. 21x15". Dark blue cloth stiff wrappers, with gilt lettering on the covers and spines. Decorative gold-speckled endpapers with dragon motifs. The set contains 8 volumes collecting and reproducing the work of the acclaimed group of Chinese painters active in the 18th century, known as the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou. These artists were thusly named because of their own strong expressive and... Read More
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Problems of Soviet Literature
by Zhdanov, A.; Maxim Gorky; N. Bukharin; K. Radek; A. Stetsky
Moscow, Leningrad: Co-operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the U.S.S.R., 1935. First edition. Hardcover. g. Octavo. 278 (1)pp. Original red cloth with black lettering on cover and spine. Red top edge. Reports and speeches from the first All-Union of Soviet writers in August 1934. Essay by the "great proletarian author" Maxim Gorky on Soviet Literature with obvious party-line connotations: "The role of the labour processes, which have converted a two-legged animal into man and created the basic... Read More
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